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Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United N...
Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”
72 min
1452
Nicole C. Kirk, "Wanamaker’s Temple: The Busine...
This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...
82 min
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Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architectu...
O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,
47 min
1454
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespear...
This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...
34 min
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Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charle...
The Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued many scholars of early modern Europe...
51 min
1456
Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious L...
Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...
52 min
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Mark Burford, "Mahalia Jackson and the Black Go...
Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...
57 min
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Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the L...
Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biographies diverges drastically with the traditional bios of other more well-known Nazis...
44 min
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Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of...
As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...
54 min
1460
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (...
Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...
52 min
1461
Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History,...
Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...
60 min
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Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon o...
This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814...
58 min
1463
William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Lumi...
Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...
63 min
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Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Ma...
Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...
50 min
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Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charle...
Parker draws upon an enormous array of documentation to provide readers with a better understanding of Charles and the many challenges he faced over the course of his decades-long reign...
64 min
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J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America...
There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...
28 min
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David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of Ja...
For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...
68 min
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Andrew Wright Hurley, "Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghos...
Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the changing cultures of Australia and Germany over the past 160 years....
33 min
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Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a T...
It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...
70 min
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Amy Collier Artman, "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn ...
Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...
57 min
1471
Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Flori...
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...
37 min
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Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vis...
Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher...
53 min
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William F. Trimble, "John S. McCain and the Tri...
The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of age during the Second World War...
73 min
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David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers ...
Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...
34 min
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, "This Is Really War: T...
Lucchesi presents the largely unknown story of the US Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II...
62 min